EP 081: Len Clark, Sportscasting Entrepreneur & Scholar

posted by Logan AndersonJanuary 3, 20190 comments

EP 081 Len Clark Sportscasting Academic

This episode is with Len Clark, the former Indiana Sportscaster of the Year for the NCAA DI Evansville Aces. Since then he’s been a broadcasting and journalism instructor at Notre Dame, a podcaster for Irish Illustrated, an entrepreneur, and expert in emerging media technologies. We discuss a wide variety of topics including:

Randomly walking into a radio station and asking for a job as an 18 year old.

Receiving degrees from five schools and the value of education for a sportscasting career.

How his passion for teaching and academics led him to becoming the voice of the NCAA DI Evansville Purple Aces.

How the success of his student broadcasting program led to him giving up his position at Evansville.

Becoming one of the earliest proponents of streaming broadcasts in the mid 1990’s.

Taking jobs in Alaska and Nebraska.

We passive aggressively troll each other about our favorite college football teams. Nebraska and Notre Dame.

Getting involved with the Notre Dame media family.

How sports media in Europe compares to here in the United States.

The value of being an entrepreneur as a sportscaster.

The DISC System as a sales and business tool.

Using the DISC System as a networking tool.

His opinion of the future viability of sports audio.

The future of play-by-play and sports talk specifically.

The value of the NSMA.

Keeping up with rapidly changing technology.

Deciding which new tech products to latch onto and which ones to ignore.

Smart speakers and other broadcasting technology to know about for the future.